How Homosexuality Can Heal the Church

‘Any community based on a shared injury will not set people free. Integration—wholeness—must involve otherness.’

Rediscovering Our Lost Fullness

We can only marvel at how insisting on ‘gay’ rights in the Church has effectively divided her. Rainbow factions have ripped apart most Protestant denominations, while Pope Francis’ legacy is often defined as a ‘gay-friendly’ Catholic Church.

Polarizing. Most responsible church leaders avoid ‘queer’ questions out of sheer exhaustion.

Andrew outside a church in Leon, Mexico.

Short-sighted. We’ve Jesus as our Head-with-a-Merciful Heart. Combine the two, and we as a Church have the power to invite all persons—including same-sex strugglers—down to the end of themselves to discover a whole new beginning.  

If Jesus and friends can’t restore our original dignity enough to enable us to step out on trembling legs and offer our sexual gift pretty well, then I’ve read the Book wrong. We’ve reduced Jesus to a nice guy who died in vain and whose rising is suspect.    

Truth is: restoring those driven by same-sex desire is a fact and fruit of Jesus’ real win for us at Calvary.

Sure, it’s a fight. The community of Jesus who lives for and through Him knows that our iconic call as male and female matters, so much so that our common enemy targeted and shattered that divine image.

His assault on every man and woman requires nothing less than the full activation of the Cross—Blood to cleanse and quicken us like a transfusion, Spirit to summon us as whole-enough men and women from the throes of disordered affections (a minor affliction but a real one).

Every Christian’s sexuality has been afflicted by sin. The Church has authority in the Blood and Spirit of her Head to restore her members.

Andrew with a participant at recent UK Living Waters Training

We who experience same-sex desires may register affliction more acutely than traditional counterparts. We can lead the way to the Cross here: justifying nothing, surrendering everything to the One who unites our divided lives and crowns us as new creations. Eschewing any ‘special’ status, we cast a gentle light on majority sinners who hide in traditional garments and whose moral blindness may well do worse damage to family and friends than obvious sinners.

Homosexual sinners, we’ve a special responsibility. Let’s repent and lead the way to Calvary in our communities. Jesus always hears our cry for mercy and looses an eternal flood of Blood and Spirit right where we worship. Bowed down, Jesus summons us to arise and invite others to joyful reconciliation, exchanging defenses for healing balm that we can apply generously to others.

Like you, I’m sick of our Church being sickened by worldly interpretations of homosexuality. I’m weary of demonically-inspired divisions, fake confirmations and unions, ‘gay’ clergy, and an ugly Pharisaism ever looking back on ‘the good old days’ that never existed.

Today is the day of salvation. Boldly bring your sin to Jesus in His Church. Exchange it at Cross for Blood and Spirit. Make your freedom known. Make a way for others to do the same.